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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Poems and plays.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Poems and plays Author:Charles Lamb Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The lord of light shakes off his drowsyhed. Drowsyhed I have Fresh from his couch up springs the lusty Sun, met with I think in And girds himself his mighty ... more »race to run. Spencer. Tis an old Meantime, by truant love of rambling led, thing, but it rhymes I turn my back on thy detested walls, with led and rhyming Proud City, and thy sons I leave behind, covers a multitude of A selfish, sordid, money-getting kind, licences. Who shut their ears when holy Freedom calls. I pass not thee so lightly, humble spire, That mindest me of many a pleasure gone, Of merriest days, of love and Islington, Kindling anew the flames of past desire; And I shall muse on thee, slow journeying on, To the green plains of pleasant Hertfordshire. The last line is a copy of Bowles's, " to the green hamlet in the peaceful plain." Your ears are not so very fastidious— many people would not like words so prosaic and familiar in a sonnet as Islington and Hertfordshire. The next was written within a day or two of the last, on revisiting a spot where the scene was laid of my ist sonnet that "mock'd my step with many a lonely glade." When last I roved these winding wood-walks green, Green winding walks, and pathways shady-sweet, Oftimes would Anna seek the silent scene, Shrouding her beauties in the lone retreat. No more I hear her footsteps in the shade ; Her image only in these pleasant ways Meets me self-wandring where in better days I held free converse with my fair-hair'd maid. I pass'd the little cottage, which she loved, The cottage which did once my all contain : It spake of days that ne'er must come again, Spake to my heart and much my heart was moved. " Now fair befall thee, gentle maid," said I, And from the cottage turn'd me, with a sigh. The next ...« less